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I've got too many bees at the moment but my bees are in commercial hives. I would happy to sell some - probably best in the spring. You should be able to find a free swarm through your local beekeeping group but if you haven't then contact me in the spring. (Could always do a shook swarm onto...

I'm in west dorset in sydling st nicholas. Any good? I'm based on an organic farm with a lot of organic neighbours. There is a lot of downland with wild flowers and white clover.

looks like honey fungus to me

The crows have probably eaten all the local eggs and chicks.... Another point that is often ignored is the increase in birds of prey.

thermal imager and a night scope on a .22 no secondary poisoning and very effective...

Thanks All I have a couple of hen houses so would do one at a time and exclude the chickens for a few days in rotation. Don't want any choking...

Hi. Just wondering if you can vape OA in a chicken house to get rid of spider mites? Thanks

Me too

same

Good tip. I found that some of the honey at the top of containers looked different and I spooned it off and used it in cooking (rhubarb crumble most recently). I have had less jars ferment since doing this.

You can treat in the autumn and still have plenty of varoa the following spring...

Might be worth putting up an advert locally in a shop window and offer payment in honey. I am sure there are plenty of people who would be interested. Or perhaps there are new beekeepers in your local club who do not have an extractor and would want to process their honey using your extractor in...

I have also had a number of colonies start swarm preparations shortly after clipping with young queens.

That's what I always do with an AS. Put a frame or two with a QC into a nuc at the same time.

Are you sure it wasn't only water near the surface that was drawn off? If it was 20% and went down to 17.5% water then you have removed 2.5% (ie 1/40th) roughly of the contents of the two buckets as liquid. If it was only 150ml of water removed then that means the two buckets must be 6kg total...